"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Wednesday, March 23, 2011

The Canterbury Tales

Alright, so I have this irritating British Literary History class this semester, right? Well, I have to memorize the first 18 lines of The Canterbury Tales in Middle English. Haha, is it sad that I don't even know what it's saying?!

I've been working on this for several weeks and have 12 lines memorized-though I'm not so sure about my pronunciation... I have to recite this for my teacher next week... I'm pretty worried.

Pretty sure this is one of the videos my teacher told us might help us... oh my! (it has more than 18 lines)


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